Guilty, as charged. I had every intention of doing a half hour of cardio before the hour-long TBT (Total Body Training) class that’s offered on Thursday nights at my gym. What am I doing instead? A million other things, I swear! Not really. I had some errands to run. Some laundry to do. Stuff that could have easily been done in time, or finished a little later. Which got me thinking… I’m definitely not the ONLY one who can think of a million good reasons excuses for skipping the gym, right?

Help me out here… Even your residential Health & Fitness Editor needs a little motivation every once in a while. I’ll give it a better shot tomorrow. Promise! But until then, here are the top 10 reasons why twenty-somethings like you and me may have skipped out on going to the gym tonight:

10. They sat in rush hour traffic and now it’s way too late for a workout when they have to be up at the crack of dawn again tomorrow.